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AIDS Care
Psychological and Socio-medical Aspects of AIDS/HIV
Volume 22, 2010 - Issue sup2: The social context of community mobilization: Foundations for success or failure
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COMMUNITY MOBILISATION SUPPLEMENTARY ISSUE

Challenging the stigmatization of female sex workers through a community-led structural intervention: learning from a case study of a female sex worker intervention in Andhra Pradesh, India

Kim M. Blankenship Department of Sociology, American University, Washington, DC, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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Monica R. Biradavolu Department of Sociology, American University, Washington, DC, USA
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Asima Jena Project Parivartan, New Delhi, India
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Annie George International Center for Research on Women, Secunderabad, India
Pages 1629-1636 | Received 04 Feb 2010, Published online: 14 Dec 2010

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